Dismal Swamp

We untied lines this morning at Pelican Marina at 7:55 A.M., 5 minutes ahead of schedule.  The swing bridge opens at 8:30 and it took 5 minutes to get there.  So, we had to wait for 30 minutes..  We snaked around in the Pasquotank River until we reached the canal.  We locked through the South Mills Lock with Runaround Sue and five other boats that had gone through the swing bridge at 7:30 A.M. The lock has stationary bollards at the top of a wall.  The lock master came around to each boat with a boat hook to take our lines (one in the front and one in the back) around the bollard and then back to your boat.  We lifted 8 feet  As we rose up in the water, we pulled our lines in.  All but one of the boats stopped for the night at the North Carolina Welcome Center.  The dock is only 3 to 4 boats long, and so we had to raft some of the boats off each other.  There are pictures included of us at the Welcome Center Dock.





Here you can see five of the seven boats in the lock.



 These are the other two boats in the lock with us.

 Seas 2 Day on left.  Runaround Sue on right.

This is a picture of all of the boats at the Welcome Center Dock.

We took really cool pictures with our old Canon camera with the long lens, but the technology is so old that the Sandisk won't fit in our printer or either of our computers.  I found a cord I thought would work, but it wouldn't load the device.  So, I guess I have to wait until I go to a drug store or somewhere like that which can handle the Sandisk and put them on a CD.  Once that happens, I'll be able to share some of them with all of you.